Since the beginning of April we’ve seen a significant rise in the number of applications we receive. Despite an increase in our grants budget for 2018/19 this has resulted in a more stringent approach being taken to the provision of grants and an increase in the number of applications being rejected.
In order to manage this increase, the categories we consider for grants have now been prioritized. This is detailed as follows with the categories lower down the list only being provided with a grant in exceptional cases or not at all:
Equipment and adaptions applications will still be considered but within the budgetary constraints identified above.